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2022 Benton County, AR Power Outage Report
In 2022, customers in Benton County, AR went without power for an average of 2.2 hours, a total of 268K customer-hours (Arkansas average 6.8 hours). That ranks 67th worst of 75 Arkansas counties and 2233rd of 2,976 nationally.
Compared with AR, the US and 2021
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of Arkansas customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Benton County, 2022
The 10 outage episodes with the most customers out at once. Times are UTC.
| # | Started (UTC) | Ended (UTC) | Duration | Peak out | Customer-hours |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | August 15, 2022 05:45 | August 15, 2022 06:30 | 45m | 21,489 | 15K |
| 2 | April 13, 2022 12:00 | April 14, 2022 12:45 | 1d | 10,008 | 20K |
| 3 | May 4, 2022 16:15 | May 5, 2022 02:30 | 10h 15m | 7,374 | 23K |
| 4 | May 4, 2022 09:30 | May 4, 2022 10:15 | 45m | 5,128 | 3,846 |
| 5 | August 23, 2022 12:45 | August 23, 2022 20:30 | 7h 45m | 3,961 | 2,467 |
| 6 | May 21, 2022 05:00 | May 21, 2022 09:15 | 4h 15m | 3,899 | 7,083 |
| 7 | December 14, 2022 11:15 | December 14, 2022 11:45 | 30m | 3,795 | 1,139 |
| 8 | October 24, 2022 13:30 | October 24, 2022 21:00 | 7h 30m | 3,723 | 2,151 |
| 9 | December 22, 2022 23:15 | December 23, 2022 09:00 | 9h 45m | 3,581 | 11K |
| 10 | December 14, 2022 13:30 | December 14, 2022 18:00 | 4h 30m | 3,364 | 1,713 |
Outage episodes by size in 2022: 184 reached 100+ customers, 39 reached 1,000+ customers, 2 reached 10,000+ customers.
Utility reliability filed with the EIA
SAIDI (average outage time per customer) and SAIFI (average interruptions per customer) that utilities serving Benton County reported on EIA Form 861 for 2022, or their most recent earlier filing. Utility-wide figures, not county-specific.
| Utility | EIA year | SAIDI | SAIFI | SAIDI excl. major events | SAIFI excl. major events |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Southwestern Electric Power Co | 2022 | 8.9 hrs | 2.53 | 5.8 hrs | 2.20 |
| Empire District Electric Co | 2022 | 2.2 hrs | 1.62 | 1.5 hrs | 1.14 |
| Carroll Electric Coop Corp - (AR) | 2022 | 1.5 hrs | 1.46 | 84 min | 1.42 |
| Ozarks Electric Coop Corp - (AR) | 2022 | 2.2 hrs | 1.54 | 67 min | 0.94 |
| City of Siloam Springs - (AR) | 2022 | 10 min | 0.13 | 10 min | 0.13 |
| City of Bentonville - (AR) | - | - | - | - | - |
About this data
- Outage figures come from DOE/ORNL EAGLE-I, which records customers out by county every 15 minutes. EAGLE-I tracked about 86% of Arkansas's customers in 2022; utilities it does not see are not counted.
- Hours per customer = outage customer-minutes ÷ 123,593 customers (ORNL modeled county customer count), including major storm days. It is comparable across counties but is not the SAIDI a utility files.
- An outage event is a continuous stretch with customers out; counts at 100, 1,000 and 10,000+ use its peak.
- Years loaded: 2015–2025. Benton County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Benton County, AR annual power outage report, 2022, data as of Oct 3, 2026 02:41 UTC, sources: DOE EAGLE-I (https://eagle-i.doe.gov/); EAGLE-I modeled customer counts (MCC) (https://figshare.com/); EIA Form 861 (utility reliability) (https://www.eia.gov/electricity/data/eia861/). https://massoutage.com/reports/2022/arkansas/benton-county